The first East Hollywood Earth Day Festival will take place this weekend April 25-26 at the Vermont/Santa Monica Metro Station from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on both days.

Live musical entertainment, ecological awareness booths and other activities will take place at the main festival site.

The Cahuenga Branch Library, on 4591 Santa Monica Blvd will also take part in the festival on Saturday only, hosting a "We Tell Stories" children's reading program at 11 a.m. and the Voices of Chornobyl play at 1 p.m. and again at 5 p.m.

The East Hollywood Earth Day Festival is presented by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, The Armenian American Chamber of Commerce, Little Armenia Chapter and Stage of the Arts, Inc., and is sponsored by Metro, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Office of Council President Eric Garcetti, Tom LaBonge’ Councilman Office, Kevin De Leon District 45th Assemblymember, Hollywood Hotel Ramada, Opcion Sonica, Recycled Movie, El Gran Burrito and the Census 2010 Hollywood Complete Count Committee.

The Green
Stage Conveners
will engage
and close negotiations
with potential
sponsors of
the East Hollywood
Earth Day Festival.

The Presenting Organizations are the AACC and the EHNC
and should be credited in all printed and promotional materials.

The Producing Organization is Stage Of The Arts, Inc (SOTA)
and should be credited as “Produced by Stage of the Arts,
Inc.” in all promotional materials.

The corporate or organizational Sponsors should be credited
as “Sponsored by” and credited as decided and defined by
the Green Stage Marketing Packet.

Logotypes of the Sponsors, the Presenting, and the Producing
organizations, should be also included or substitute the
written credits as needed and decided by the graphic nature
of the promotional media or documents.

The only requirements to get involved with the Green Stage
Alliance in 2009 are to agreed and support the 2006 Green
Stage Resolution and the 2007 Zero Waste Resolution of the
National Latino Congress. To review both documents you may
visit http://GreenStageAlliance.blogspot.com.

The East Hollywood Earth Day celebrations may start with
a Tree dedication to poet and journalist Hrant Dink on Wednesday
April 22 and continues with the Green Stage Festival on
Saturday April 25 and 26 . Information is to be posted at www.StageOfTheArts.info and www.easthollywood.net.

The Green Stage Ad Hoc committee of the East Hollywood Neighborhood
Council will meet monthly as a working group producing and
presenting the East Hollywood Earth Day Festival.

CAHUENGA GREEN STAGE Street fair closes the block
of Santa Monica Blvd. between Virgil & Madison Avenues
to set the Green Circle, up to 50 booths, a performance
stage and a Green Congress on environmental action at the
Cahuenga LA Public Library.http://www.stageofthearts.info/cahuenga_festival.html

METRO GREEN STAGE is set at the Metro station on
Santa Monica Blvd. and Vermont Avenue which is already a
performance stage. Music and performing arts are presented
during both days without closing streets. Rewards are offered
to all using Metro to attend the Festival.

VERMONICA GREEN STAGE is a proposed art show set
in the area of the Vermonica Art installation of Angelino
lights poles permanently set at the parking lot of the Santa
Monica & Vermont shopping mall (Staples, Rite Aids,
ethnic foods, etc.)

The 2009 East Hollywood Earth Day Festival is a ZERO
WASTE event organized by a group of conveners taking community
action to develop a Zero Waste Pilot Plan in East Hollywood.

A HRANT DINK TREE DEDICATION is suggested at the
triangle of Hollywood Blvd., Prospect St. and Vermont Ave. In
association with the Armenia Tree Project a tree dedication
in memory of Hrant Dink may stand for Peace as understatement
of harmony between nature and mankind.
A temporary
Peace art installation
may stand with
the tree during
the month of
April. The
Hrant Dink
dedication
may be on an
existing tree
or a new one
to be planted.
We are planning
for a ceremony
on Wednesday
April 22, International
Earth Day,
with the participation
of our elected
officials and
the Armenian
consulate office.Hrant
Dink (Armenian)
(September
15, 1954 –
January 19,
2007) was a Turkish-Armenianeditor, journalist and columnist.
As editor-in-chief of
the bilingual
Turkish-Armenian
newspaper Agos .
Dink was a prominent
member of the Armenian minority
in Turkey.
Dink was best
known for advocating
Turkish-Armenian
reconciliation
and human and
minority rights
in Turkey; he
was often critical
of both Turkey's denial of
the Armenian
Genocide, and of the Armenian
diaspora's campaign for its international recognition.[1][2] Dink
was prosecuted
three times for denigrating
Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from
Turkish nationalists.[1][3][4][5]Hrant
Dink was assassinated
in Istanbul in
January 2007,
by Ogün
Samast, a 17-year old Turkish nationalist. This was shortly
after the premiere
of the genocide
documentary "Screamers" in
which he is interviewed
about Turkish
denial of the
Armenian Genocide
of 1915 and the
case against
him under article
301. While Samast
has since been
taken into custody, a couple photographs of the assassin flanked
by smiling Turkish police and gendarmerie,
posing with the
killer side to
side in front
of the Turkish
flag with joy
and pride, have
since surfaced.
The photos created
a scandal in
Turkey, prompting a spate of investigations and the removal
from office of those involved.[6][7]At
his funeral,
one hundred thousand
mourners marched
in protest of
the assassination,
chanting "We
are all Armenians" and "We
are all Hrant
Dink". Criticism of Article
301 became increasingly vocal after his death, leading
to parliamentary
proposals for
repeal.